Pierson v. State

The appellant, jointly with three other persons, was charged by affidavit with conspiring to commit a felony. Upon a separate trial he was found guilty, and from a judgment of conviction, he appealed and has assigned as error the overruling of his motion for a new trial and.of his motion in arrest of judgment. This is his second appeal. Pierson v. State (1919), 188 Ind. 239, 123 N. E. 118.

The reasons specified in the motion for a new trial relate to the alleged insufficiency of the evidence to prove certain elements of the crime charged, the admission of certain evidence, the giving of…